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One Billionaire's Suggestion to Address Inequality

 
 
 
Axulus said:
The last time we had a series of "mass revolutions" over capitalism, he had a bunch of countries turn into communist hell holes. The only way revolutions like that would happen again is if people forget their history.

Wars was the next on his list - what wars is he referring to? I'm not sure this is really a threat? Is he saying that the poorest countries, like in Africa and Middle East, will start wars with rich countries like Europe, Japan, China, or US? Why would they do that when many of these countries are growing economically at some of the fastest rates in their history, and things are rapidly improving in many of them?

So, with those two unlikely (at least for the foreseeable future), I say we'll see a mix of reasonable taxes and over taxed countries.
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Yeah, I pointed this out in the last ksen revolution fetish thread.

The revolution trend has been going the other way for some decades now. It's the egalitarians and leftists that get tossed out by mass movements.

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Axulus said:
ksen said:
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Just like the collapse of the US dollar, it's coming any day now.
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If the drum circles just play the drums faster...
 
On the off chance that I'm wrong about the revolution, I'd like to remind all the rich Americans about the security of the largely unarmed Canadian population and the stability of our banking system. We'll take your money and then totally not beat you to death with a hockey stick after we get it. Trust us.
 
So, does Jones's corporate shaming survey sound like it could work?
 
Tom Sawyer said:
On the off chance that I'm wrong about the revolution, I'd like to remind all the rich Americans about the security of the largely unarmed Canadian population and the stability of our banking system. We'll take your money and then totally not beat you to death with a hockey stick after we get it. Trust us.
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WE ARE NOT AFRAID TO USE IT.
 
Nice Squirrel said:
Tom Sawyer said:
On the off chance that I'm wrong about the revolution, I'd like to remind all the rich Americans about the security of the largely unarmed Canadian population and the stability of our banking system. We'll take your money and then totally not beat you to death with a hockey stick after we get it. Trust us.
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Just keep that WMD vigilantly aimed to the North.

At some point they're going to give up on winning the Stanley Cup by conventional methods and come after it by force.
 
Just so you know, those giant hockey sticks aren't designed for swatting individual rich people, but are instead intended for use against large hordes of peasants, so they can be swept en masse back into the Niagara river or the like when they cross the border. We went with that as opposed to a fence like you Yanks put up against the Mexicans because your way doesn't seem to be so effective.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
On the off chance that I'm wrong about the revolution, I'd like to remind all the rich Americans about the security of the largely unarmed Canadian population and the stability of our banking system. We'll take your money and then totally not beat you to death with a hockey stick after we get it. Trust us.
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coloradoatheist said:
AthenaAwakened said:
Well, the powers that be never take the people seriously until they have to.

And eventually they always have to.
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Except that OWS would have been a good time for it, but OWS had no advice, just complaints and people moved on. And the support is not 99% to 1% it's more around 50 to 40 with people undecided.
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actually the movement OWS isn't gone. The same people are still around, still doing "the Lord's work."
It just may be under a different name or the work is done on a local level.

We have this linear view of history where there is protest and laws get changed and the good guys win. No movement has been like that and no movement ever will be. Movements are messy and for every Dr. King there are a hundred Rev. Murphy's. For every civil rights act that is passed there are a hundred that never even make it into committee and thousands that never make it to congressman's office. the struggle is ongoing and the path is thorny and by no means straight. What most people see on the news are the places in the road where the lightning strikes. They never see footprints left everyday.
 
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Jimmy Higgins said:
It gets worse. They also have a back up hockey hall of a fame too!

It wasn't always like this.
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During the Cold War, Canada developed a fleet of large curling stones to help attack Russia via the Arctic Circle.
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Crap, that sucker is in Blunder Bay!
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Dude, do you have any idea how much curl they'd need to deploy that stone for it to be a threat to Minnesota? That bad boy is aimed at the UP now days.
 
But our greatest cultural monuments are at risk:

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How could I forget Pierre the Pantsless.
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Hey, those curling stones are the reason that people in Alaska aren't speaking Russian, thank you very much. They did invade during the Cold War, but they saw us pushing these big curling stones towards them and they figured it had to be part of some elaborate trap and ran away rather than get caught in it. As it turns out, there wasn't any trap and our strategy was to move towards them while behind the curling stones, so we wouldn't get shot, and then politely ask them not to invade our neighbour because it would be somewhat rude. If they'd stood their ground another five minutes before taking off, they would have won the war because our tank was actually in Saskatchewan at the time getting a new paint job.

Turns out the chessmasters in their army overanalyzed the situation and just outthought themselves.
 
Tom Sawyer said:
Hey, those curling stones are the reason that people in Alaska aren't speaking Russian, thank you very much. They did invade during the Cold War, but they saw us pushing these big curling stones towards them and they figured it had to be part of some elaborate trap and ran away rather than get caught in it. As it turns out, there wasn't any trap and our strategy was to move towards them while behind the curling stones, so we wouldn't get shot, and then politely ask them not to invade our neighbour because it would be somewhat rude. If they'd stood their ground another five minutes before taking off, they would have won the war because our tank was actually in Saskatchewan at the time getting a new paint job.

Turns out the chessmasters in their army overanalyzed the situation and just outthought themselves.
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Your scenario is BS. Problem is that chessmasters are the ones who win. A Chessmaster overthinking is out of the question. When playing chess there is a clock so thinking is less important than proven reacting. Besides have you ever been out in the snow during a storm? Can't see anything.
 
I have been out in the snow during storms and seen things, but I have lost track of how this relates to chess mastery, and how chess mastery relates to giant statuary, and how giant statuary relates to ksen's latest prole-revolution fetish so maybe it's not important.
 
dismal said:
I have been out in the snow during storms and seen things, but I have lost track of how this relates to chess mastery, and how chess mastery relates to giant statuary, and how giant statuary relates to ksen's latest prole-revolution fetish so maybe it's not important.
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A part of the problem might be that you read the OP and thought I was calling for revolution in it.

Hint: I wasn't.
 
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